the accusation, he is Beelzebub, the chief of sinners, a glutton, and the friend of the impure. Christian martyr of the nineteenth century, does it wrong thee one half as much? then remember, it is enough for thee “that the servant should be as his Lord,” and that you be found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master's faith. To conclude persecution for righteousness' sake belongs to the past, and that Christianity to-day is at peace with the world, honored by sects and societies, is to mistake its very nature. History will repeat itself; the trials of prophet, disciple, and apostle, those of whom “the earth was not worthy,” await, in some form, the pioneers of Truth.
Scripture informs us, Jesus read the thoughts of man, discovering the hidden springs of action, and construing them according to motive. Perceiving their thoughts, as he walked with his students, he answered, unasked, questions that needed explanation. This mind-reading was not clairvoyance, it was absence from the body, a spiritual insight wherewith he shew the woman of Samaria her error, and convinced her of his superiority over man, and she went away, saying, “Is not this the Christ,” the Truth of man that discerns the error? His marvellous works are readily accounted for when we remember, Christ is God, and that Jesus held all that he was, God, and wrought from the standpoint of his God-being, and this was the science of being.
A magistrate who lived at the time of Jesus, wrote, “His rebuke is fearful,” and his strong language in scripture regarding hypocrisy, confirms this saying, but the stronger evidence that his reproof was pointed and pungent, is the necessity there was for it when he
